Episode 353 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today’s show: 1. Can I take the sacrament only once or twice? How many times in one day? 2. Is it wrong to pray to Jesus? I know what He taught us in the Lord’s Prayer, yet I admit that I feel closer to Jesus (because of His suffering and death on the cross, etc.) than I do to God the Father. So sometimes I just say, “Thank You, Jesus,” and wonder if that is wrong. 3. How should a church determine the best way to spend the money they receive from weekly tithing? 4. How do you feel about the saying, “preach the Gospel and if necessary, use words”? 5. What exactly is happening during Christ’s transfiguration?

Episode 352 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today’s show: 1. If you are saved why does the person that is saved have to go through a judgment? I thought being saved by the Lord’s grace and blood you would be saved and live with him. 2. In the New Jerusalem, as described in Revelation, walls and gates are surrounding the city.  As all evil will have been eradicated by that time, and God’s perfect creation reigns then, from what do the walls and gates protect the New Jerusalem? Or why are the gates and walls there or needed? 3. Does God use our trials to discipline us? 4. Can a true Christian be led astray from the faith? 5. How do I know if I truly believe in Jesus?

Episode 351 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today’s show: 1. God told Moses that he hardened Pharaoh’s heart to demonstrate his own power but it seemed pretty cold. It seems kind of cruel. 2. 1 Corinthians 10:31 says, “So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God,” My question is: how do you understand this? How can we tell the difference between sin and places we have freedom? 3. What’s the difference between being foolish and having a large amount of faith when we take big risks for God? 4. Are Christians still obligated to follow the 10 Commandments? 5. What is the most Biblical way for us to evangelize to our neighbors?

Episode 350 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today’s show: 1. Is it true that Jesus when saying that the temple would be raised in three days was referring to his resurrection? If so, what does it mean that Jesus is a temple? 2. When he revealed the veil to Peter (in the book of Acts), did the Lord make all the unclean animals clean then or are they still unclean?3. How best can I serve Christ as a single woman? 4. Should Christians expect blessings to come with persecution? 5. Why does Paul say that there are certain people that we shouldn’t even eat with? How can we evangelize to people who we aren’t supposed to associate with? 

Episode 349 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today’s show: 1. Do Muslims and Christians serve the same God? 2. It seems like the Son that Jesus was born because the plan of salvation? Why did Jesus need to exist as the Trinity? Did God always exist as the Trinity? 3. How best can I serve Christ as a single woman? 4. How do we discern whether or not we are actually a Christian? 5. What should we do when people in the church act in a way that is unloving?

Episode 348 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today’s show: 1. If God predestined everything as it teaches in Romans 9 and Ephesians 1 doesn’t this mean that God also predestines sin and that God is the author of sin? How does this not turn God into something that resembles the devil rather than what we find in Scripture? I want to believe what God’s word says but I can’t make sense of this in my mind. 2. In Revelation 13:15 it says, “And it was allowed to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast might even speak and might cause those who would not worship the image of the beast to be slain,” how do you feel about the possibility that AI is the image of the beast? 3.How does a church that uses old hymns reach out to the younger generation?  4. What does it mean in Ephesians when Paul tells fathers not to provoke their children to anger?

Episode 347 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today’s show: 1. In the parable of the wheat and the tares are the tares the same as the seed of the serpent? 2. Throughout the Bible, we are told to fear God. I’m thinking of Ecclesiastes 12:13, “Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.” What does it mean to fear God? And how does that fit with the command to love God? 3. What do you think Christians should really know about God? 4. I have heard you talk about how preaching the gospel is essential to a faithful church? Is this different from a pastor just preaching the word of God? How do I know if a pastor is preaching the gospel? 5. What is the key difference between a job and a calling? How does a Christian know if they are living out their calling?​

Episode 346 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today’s show: 1. How do you know if you are called to ministry? 2. Do you believe that Christians can be filled with the Spirit? If so, what does that look like? 3. What are the signs of a person who is demon possessed? If we come across a person who is demon possessed, what do you think we should do about it? 4. Does God use suffering to make us holy? 5. When Paul in 1 Corinthians 12 says that he will show them a more excellent way, is he talking about love? How does this relate to spiritual gifts?​

Episode 345 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today’s show: 1. If God is loving, why doesn’t he save everyone? It seems reasonable that a God who loves everyone and has the power to save everyone would save everyone. 2. I have been a Christian for over 40 years.  I have been an ineffectual Christian for over 40 years. I don’t know how to go back and start over. 3. Can doubting our salvation ultimately motivate us to become more holy? 4. Will the new heaven and earth be a physical or a spiritual place? 5. What does it mean that “God will right his law on our hearts”? Does this mean that believers will gain victory of their sin?

Episode 344 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today’s show: 1. In your first chapter you begin with creation and cover the themes of the garden and the wilderness in the Bible. Can you give us a structure of your book? 2. What is the tree of the knowledge of good and evil all about and what’s its significance in the story?